The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Chester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 22 14 14
Rank change year-on-year
-8 0
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.550% 7.080% 5.109%
As % of the Vendors category 2.857% 14.29% 9.722%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £375 £463 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.91% +12.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £384 £386 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.58% +2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
All Vendors
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
70 56 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 54.26% 49.56% 52.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 22
Average daily rate £358 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.37% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £293 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
Average hourly rate £43.70 £14.00 £46.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+212.14% -69.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.67 £14.00 £45.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £21.20 £47.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
IBM
Cheshire

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Chester IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IBM across the Chester region.

Chester IBM Daily Rate Trend

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Chester region.

Chester IBM Hourly Rate Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IBM.

1 7 (41.18%) HP
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) NetApp
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) DataStage
4 4 (23.53%) ETL
4 4 (23.53%) SAN
4 4 (23.53%) Change Data Capture
5 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
5 2 (11.76%) UNIX
5 2 (11.76%) AIX
5 2 (11.76%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.76%) QA
6 1 (5.882%) Apache Axis
6 1 (5.882%) RIA
6 1 (5.882%) jQuery
6 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.882%) Mule
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.882%) ICEfaces
6 1 (5.882%) RichFaces
6 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.882%) CSS3
6 1 (5.882%) Change Control
6 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.882%) SQL
6 1 (5.882%) VBScript
6 1 (5.882%) J2EE

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.882%) Apache Axis
2 1 (5.882%) jQuery
2 1 (5.882%) ICEfaces
2 1 (5.882%) RichFaces
2 1 (5.882%) CSS3
2 1 (5.882%) J2EE
2 1 (5.882%) CSS
2 1 (5.882%) JSP
2 1 (5.882%) Servlets
2 1 (5.882%) SOAP
2 1 (5.882%) Web Services
2 1 (5.882%) DOM
2 1 (5.882%) XSLT
2 1 (5.882%) XHTML
2 1 (5.882%) JMS
2 1 (5.882%) WSDL
2 1 (5.882%) JAX-RPC
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (5.882%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) Mule
1 1 (5.882%) Apache
1 1 (5.882%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 1 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) JUnit
1 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.882%) JIRA
1 1 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Storage Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Storage Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Consultant
4 1 (5.882%) SAN Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) RIA
1 1 (5.882%) HACMP
1 1 (5.882%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) UNIX
1 2 (11.76%) AIX
2 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Tru64
2 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) ETL
1 4 (23.53%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
3 1 (5.882%) Change Control
3 1 (5.882%) ITIL
3 1 (5.882%) SOA
3 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
3 1 (5.882%) Service Management
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
3 1 (5.882%) Migration
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) TDD
3 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) VBScript
2 1 (5.882%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) HP
2 5 (29.41%) NetApp
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) TIBCO
3 1 (5.882%) Perforce
3 1 (5.882%) CA
3 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.882%) Brocade
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